§35-3-5. Incorporated Grand Lodges May Establish Homes or Asylums
Any grand lodge enumerated in this article, or any similar grand lodge, heretofore or hereafter incorporated as such grand lodge under the laws of this state, shall be authorized and empowered to take by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, land not to exceed five hundred acres for the purpose of establishing and maintaining homes or […]
§35-3-6. Provisions of Article Not to Apply to Organizations Connected With Churches
Nothing in this article contained shall authorize the incorporation of any society or organization connected directly or indirectly with any church, religious sect or denomination, and nothing in this article contained shall authorize any society or organization, connected directly or indirectly with any church, religious sect, society, or denomination to have or acquire any real […]
§35-2-5. Record of Appointment of Trustees; Recording Fee
The trustees heretofore appointed by the circuit court of any county to hold the title to the real and personal property of any society, order, lodge, association, union or brotherhood, or of any institution of learning, or of any benevolent or charitable institution or association, in this article mentioned, and who are still occupying such […]
§35-2-6. Trustees of Certain Organizations to Be Corporations; Powers
The trustees of every institution, society, order, organization, or association in this article mentioned (except trustees for any labor union or similar association or brotherhood of craftsmen or employees), or any local branch thereof, whether named in the conveyance, dedication, devise, gift or bequest, or appointed as provided in this article, shall be a corporation […]
§35-2-7. Certain Provisions of Article One Applicable to Property of Labor Unions
Sections seven, nine, ten, eleven and twelve of article one of this chapter, relating to the property of religious organizations and the powers of the trustees and the rights of members of such organizations, shall apply to and govern labor unions, or similar associations, or brotherhoods of craftsmen or employees, or any local branches thereof, […]
§35-2-8. Quantity of Real Estate Certain Organizations May Hold
Except as may otherwise be allowed by law, the trustees of any society, order, lodge, association, union or brotherhood mentioned in this article may take and hold at any one time not exceeding two acres of land to be used as a place of meeting for such society, order, lodge, association, union or brotherhood, for […]
§35-2-9. Distribution of Income by Trust Which Is Deemed a Private Foundation; Prohibitions as to Trusts Which Are Private Foundations or Split-Interest Trusts; Definition of Terms
(a) Distribution of income by trust which is deemed a private foundation; prohibitions as to such private foundation. — Every trust, receiving a gift, grant, devise or bequest, which is deemed to be a private foundation as defined in section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, unless its governing instrument expressly includes specific […]
§35-3-1. Acquisition of Real Estate by Unincorporated Grand Lodges; Maximum Quantity; Exemption From Taxation
It shall be lawful for the grand lodges of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Junior Order United American Mechanics, Improved Order of Red Men, and other organizations of like character, to acquire by purchase, devise or gift, and hold the same for the purpose of establishing, […]
§35-2-2. Validation of Conveyances, Devises, Gifts and Bequests to Trustees — Appointment of Trustee; Designation of Beneficiaries and Objects; Administration by Chancery Court Cy Pres
No conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grant or bequest hereafter made for any of the uses set forth in the preceding section shall fail or be declared void for insufficient designation of the beneficiaries in, or the objects of, any trust annexed to such conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grant, or bequest, or for any failure to […]
§35-2-3. Trustees for Unincorporated Benevolent, Fraternal, etc., Organizations
Any unincorporated benevolent, fraternal, patriotic, literary, temperance, or charitable society, order, lodge or association, or any labor union, or similar association or brotherhood of craftsmen or employees, or any local branch thereof, to which, or for the use of which, any property, real or personal, is conveyed, dedicated, devised, transferred, given or bequeathed, may from […]